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The terrorist attacks in Paris last Friday were shocking. A week later, the shock has not worn off. In several places across the city armed men fired upon helpless people, then blew themselves up. In the Bataclan nightclub they first told everyone to lie down. People lay down, as they were told.…

10/20/16, 4:31 AM CEST Top moments of the final US presidential debate Trump will not commit to accepting a loss while Clinton warns he is a Russian puppet. 10/20/16, 3:21 AM CEST Merkel, Hollande: We don’t exclude more Russia sanctions over Syria Merkel described Wednesday’s talks with Putin as a…

C olin Trevorrow’s Hollywood fairy tale started at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012. The bespectacled, bearded director, then 35, came to Park City, Utah, with an endearingly quirky time-travel romantic comedy executive-produced by the endearingly quirky Duplass brothers, Mark and Jay, and…

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Photographed by Mikael Jansson, Vogue , December 2015 Hollywood’s blockbuster blonde comes to town this month with the final Hunger Games and David O. Russell’s Joy . So what’s next for Jennifer Lawrence? Buck the system, set up home, and try to find a date. It’s sweltering in Los Angeles, the kind…

At one point, preoccupied with observing the changing color of shadows on snow, Axelrod seems on the verge of a transcendent understanding of how to exist entirely in the present. Photo by Thinkstock When he was in his late 20s, the writer Howard Axelrod spent two years living in a remote cabin in…

Buy A Song of Ice and Fire: Vols I-VII by George R.R. Martin Harper, 5232 pp, £55.00, July 2012, ISBN 978 0 00 747715 9 Game of Thrones: The Complete First and Second Seasons Warner Home Video, £40.00, March 2013 The writer Neal Stephenson, in response to a question about his own fame or lack of it,…

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MAY 25, 2012 SIMON CRITCHLEY, A BRITISH PHILOSOPHER based at The New School in New York, is best known for books like Very Little… Almost Nothing (1997), Infinitely Demanding (2007) and The Book of Dead Philosophers (2009), a bestseller that has helped to cement his status as a prominent public…

Значение темы реформ в России трудно переоценить. Сегодня от успеха или неудачи преобразований напрямую зависит вектор развития страны. Реформы при нынешнем политическом режиме в России невозможны, потому что базовая рамка преобразований — это работающие институты, а среда, способствующая реализации…

[Photos by Andrew B. Myers] "If I'm willing to pay $100 for someone to bring me a glass of fresh milk from an Omaha dairy cow right now, there might very well be a guy who would be super happy to do that, but he doesn't know that I'm the crazy guy who is willing to pay $100." Bo Fishback was on…

ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror by Michael Weiss and Hassan Hassan ISIS: The State of Terror by Jessica Stern and J.M. Berger The author has wide experience in the Middle East and was formerly an official of a NATO country. We respect the writer’s reasons for anonymity. —The Editors Reuters A still…

The horrendous terrorist attacks in Paris and the resulting blanket media coverage have once again raised questions about the proportionality of news coverage when it comes to reporting deadly events. The argument goes that the Paris attacks are unfairly given more coverage than similar events in…

Utopia postponed … Google's self-driving car might have unintended consequences. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images N ewsflash: the internet doesn't exist. If you think there is just one thing called "the Internet" with a single logic and set of values – rather than a variety of different…

Gianni Dagli Orti/Art Resource Charles Joseph Travies: La Critique , 1842 I rarely spend much time wondering why others do not enjoy the books I like. Henry Green, an old favorite, almost a fetish, is never an easy read and never offers a plot that is immediate or direct. “There’s not much straight…

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David Simon may be television’s most self-effacing brand-name storyteller, but he’s not immune to the joys of reverse prestige, reveling in his shows’ small, exclusive audiences. In interviews pegged to his HBO miniseries, Show Me A Hero, Simon has become fond of talking about how no one will watch…

Общественное мнение в сегодняшней России довольно хорошо изучено. Настроения российских элит, напротив, известны плохо, так как эта сфера с 2000-х годов становится все более закрытой. Однако комплексный анализ накопленных данных позволяет сделать выводы об основных настроениях элит в ситуации,…

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My teenaged children and I were hanging out in our kitchen, just as we’d done thousands of times before, when one of them said something that made me retort: ‘Well, I consider myself a feminist.’ My 14-year-old daughter looked at me in surprise: ‘You do ?’ My 16-year-old son seemed equally startled.…

Attila Kisbenedek/AFP/Getty Images Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Budapest, Hungary, March 2014 Visitors to Budapest this past July were greeted by large billboards, sponsored by an opposition group, saying: “Sorry about our prime minister.” A few weeks later, ugly images from Hungary began…

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I’m commiserating with a friend who recently left the technology industry to return to entertainment. “I’m not a programmer,” he begins, explaining some of the frustrations of his former workplace, before correcting himself, “—oh, engineer, in tech-bro speak. Though to me, engineers are people who…

When it premiered at Cannes this spring, “Son of Saul,” the harrowing feature debut from Hungarian filmmaker László Nemes, became an immediate sensation. While films set during the Holocaust are so common as to have practically become a genre unto themselves, Nemes seems to have done the impossible:…

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Photo: DEA PictureLibrary/Getty Images When you hide your cell phone, log off your computer, and find a few rare moments of calm to read some poetry or a weighty novel, it certainly feels as though it ought to be good for you. Just as filling your lungs with fresh air leaves you feeling physically…

(Doug Chayka) Who Needs Fiction? That was the question I saw on signs around Stockholm during a recent visit. The signs were advertising a local museum, but being a novelist, I took the question as a direct challenge. From deep inside the thickets of our Digital Age, with its glorification of…